The Irish standard., 1887-11-19
AT WA YNE j ullCTioN.
How Two Women and Two AIen Amuse.
i Themselves at q Dreary Station.


train on the Flint aud Pere Marquette
road two women and two men. None
Of us were acquainted, and we had an
hour and half to wait at railroad
crossing. There was a dreary-looking
waiting room, l2x12, and there was a
platform sixty feet long by eight broad.
The scenery consisted Of
One water tank.
Ten freight cars.
Two fields.
Five telegraph poles.
One pile Of lumber.
AS the train left us l saw the two
women closely surveying each other
from hat to shoes. Each seemed to re-
gard the other with suspicion and dis
trust. They entered the waiting-room
and sat down, getting as far from each
other as possible. The one dressed in
brown seemed to be saying to herself.
''Good lands! but what taste that
woman has! Who ever saw any one
mix such colors together before? If
she is going to the lunatic asylum she
should have an attendant along. Such
persons are dangerous.
And the one dressed in blue seemed
to be saying to herself:
ssHave | got to wait here for All hour
and half in the company Of that
thing? Such a hat! Such a cloak!
What big feet! She must be some one
going out to work in q creamery, and
doubt il she knows what county she
is in"
My friend, the man, was fat, mild,
eyed specimen Of the human race. We
stood FOR a moment and looked at each
other ] might have said TO mrself:
''Well, il J. haven't just run across
bank-sncak md highway robber then
don: know grindstone when l see it,
Wonder when he got out of prison9
Seems to have All innocent look, but
that is all put on. No doubt he got
off the train thinking to rob me
Of my four dollars and return ticket 10
Detroit, but I've spotted his little game
and will be prepared 1or any move
IAlSA i1C uASS i1S nave ltAunStL.
"Oh-ho! So here is Billy the Kid
the chap who is supposed to have had a
hand in a(ducting Charlie Ross! Prob
ably out on another child-steaiiny cx-
pedition: but I'm Oh to his game and
will spoil il. Aly! but hasn't he got
hardened look! That fellow would tear
all innocent babe from a dying mothers
arms and dash its brains out against
the family churn without one ray of
pity'
But neither Of ,1s thought any such
thing. Even before the women got
seated we threw our grips down to-
gether and he said:
"Old boy. do you slnoke?"
eyes, thanks ~
swell, here's something eau RECON-
mend. Which way are you going?''
''1'o Toledo
''Good! I'm going there myself.
Live in Detroit?''
''Yes. Do you?''
''Yes, your phiz looks familiar to
ne.'
':And know have often seen you. |
let's walk up and down.
And while those women sat twelve
eet apart, each one with her veiE down
ind her body huddled up in an excll1-
i've sort Of a way, we walked ARA in
nm up and down and joked and told
tories and said we were glad we nlat
Zach other. Forty minutes had passed
way when one OF the woman became
estiye. It struck her that the train /
lad come and departed while she was
n It reverie: 1t was an awful thing to
o.. She might be addressing muir
eress for all she knew, and she was
ute certain that the other woman
ad at least run away from two hus-
ands, but she finally got up courage
noush to ask,
''Haye YOU the timer
The other gave start of surprise.
'id she hear Alright? 1t might be that
ne WAS being addressed by the cook
the scow Mary Ann but after taking
We minutes to- think it all cvers she
eplied:
mo. Have your'
And then beth shr;nk away frtntr
ech ether again, and turned ui', their
,ses under their veiits, and were. a,fyv
lat tlrey let down on their dignity
ti,e stranger called me .~phl
~, and borrowed some fine cut, ,tssi
,ked me itr tire RIBS: :tns! | called birn
Did fellow aud slapped him on t''a
,ck, aud borrowed every match he
al. When the, train came along WE
1t into the same c:pl' and into tb"
ME seat The women came out TO
We each other a lools Of disdain unt,
tier separate coaches, and as each
le found a seat she. no doubt said toL
,rself: i
Well. just c;,tcl, nst in such u sarspe t
gain it you can! never passed. such \
d hour and half IN my whole life! ]
he rai!road company ought to he !
led for letting $ e:era2e passengers
ito the tirst-class ladies' waiting
,om' tpssaG ts Detroit Free